Windows can go fuck itself, I’m sick of their shit. Teams kept opening links in Edge even though it’s not my default browser. Found out that Teams specifically has a setting to ignore the default browser and use Edge anyway. The fuck is that about?
Then I wanted to turn off the web search in the Start menu and I had to do a fucking RegEdit! They’re making it more and more complicated to not use their services, where’s the anti-trust regulations when you need them?
Install Pro or Enterprise, or Tiny10 and then go here and run the Power Shell script: https://massgrave.dev/
And choose the first option. Takes a minute but then you’ll be fully activated. If you don’t trust the script, download it and check it yourself.
Then you can use the Group Policy editor to turn a bunch of crap off that Home users aren’t allowed to. I use Winaero Tweaker to edit all these things with a UI. It works even on the Home edition except for the few settings that require the Group Policy.
Important part from the article:
Windows users can still change their default browser through the Windows settings.
Great how many people are going to do that
Almost all of them. Especially corporate customers on managed devices
I’m as pro *Nix as the next person, but be careful of viewing the world through rage coloured lenses. Just makes everything look like a red flag.
Your assuming everyone understands how default apps work. And you are forgetting that most people get intimidated by the popups trying to get you not to change the default.
It is complete enshitification if you ask me. There should be no reason why a application can’t have a button to make it the default.
It’s possible that I’ve been lucky, and my experience of end users when it comes to Windows lately have been using it since Windows 10 which strongly pushed the Default Apps configuration vs previous versions. The world is a big place after all
Maybe I’m just over reacting. But people like us deal directly or indirectly with the fallout of such madness. I hope that the DOJ goes after Microsoft at some point soon or at least scares them a little.
Certainly wouldn’t hurt them, the fear of God never hurts an international company
Yeah I’ve seen malware that installs their own version of chromium and sets that as the default, I’m assuming this will block that
Maybe I’m out of the loop but I’ve never heard that being a major issue.
